Joseph Silke: However well intentioned, Harper’s Law is a mistake

It would create a two-tier society wherein servants of the state, normal citizens like the rest of us, have their lives valued more highly.

Sarah Ingham: People voted to take back control of Britain’s borders. The Government must now do so.

Policymakers should be asking themselves whose quality of life worsens thanks to the current unplanned mess.

A third front is set to resume in the struggle between the elected and unelected. The Government v the judges.

Such is the logic of the new Justice Secretary’s appointment – and the combative stance of the Attorney-General.

To deliver on prisoner rehabilitation, Raab needs the same as every other Minister. A little help from Downing Street.

But prisons policy won’t gain more priority from politicians without doing so from the rest of us.

Churchill, walking with destiny. Johnson, winking at destiny.

His biggest strength now is that to a mass of people who don’t follow politics he is a Given, A Fact – like Thatcher, Blair or the weather.

Truss top, Wallace second, Sunak down, Gove up – and Johnson sixth from bottom in our post-shuffle Cabinet League Table

There is a willingness to give the new Cabinet a chance, but nervousness about the country’s economic prospects and the Party’s strategic direction.

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: Rayner mocks Raab and steals Starmer’s thunder

There was an old-fashioned outbreak of class war, and the Deputy Prime Minister found himself on the losing side.

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: Johnson dodges questions on Universal Credit and crops

A number of ministers tipped for removal in the reshuffle were nowhere to be seen.

Ten questions for Johnson’s reshuffle

Among them are: what does he do about economic policy? Who runs Downing Street? And: what about the Home and Foreign Offices?

Our Cabinet League Table. Raab plummets from third from top in July to fourth from bottom last month.

And Wallace is up from ninth to fourth. The Prime Minister and Home Secretary are both in the bottom ten.

Profile: The Foreign Office, damaged by the retreat from Kabul, but free at last of Blairite illusions

Sir Anthony Eden offers the great modern warning: an expert who lacked the mental robustness to cope at the highest level.

Raab v Wallace. Downing Street should force a ceasefire.

If you want a circus, send for Pen Farthing. There’s a government to run. Number Ten must get a grip.

Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: The Foreign Secretary fails to win friends and influence people

Nor could the Foreign Secretary pretend that his department was paying much attention to Afghanistan before the fall of Kabul.

WATCH: “The central assessment” suggested “it was unlikely Kabul would fall this year”, Raab tells MPs

The Foreign Secretary adds that intelligence indicated a “steady deterioration” after troops withdrew from Afghanistan.

James Frayne: Polls suggest the Government will not face a backlash for the principle of withdrawal in Afghanistan

Mainly because people didn’t want troops to be there (or in the Middle East) in the first place.